git: 0b7472b3d8d2 - main - Mount the EFI system partition (ESP) on newly-installed systems.

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Mon Mar 1 16:39:50 UTC 2021



On 2/28/21 3:44 PM, Brandon Bergren wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021, at 2:25 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
>> Yes. I agree as well. I was just hoping to say just that: EFI is barely
>> theoretically possible, but in reality we'll likely never use it....
>>
>> The net effect is that we don't want to install efi on powerpc on freebsd.
>>
>> Warner
>>   
> Yeah. The code before the change excluded mips and powerpc platforms, and it should continue to do so instead of using the existence of a /boot/efi directory as the only clue.
>
> Currently bsdinstall bails out and leaves powerpc* in a half-installed state because the die in the uname case propagates to the main script, so it never runs the bits after the bootconfig.
>

So that was a deliberate choice to keep the list of places that know 
about efi vs. non-EFI centralized. I'd prefer to just not make that 
directory on systems where it doesn't apply rather than messing with the 
installer. Do you know where it is being made?
-Nathan


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